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Esperanza Spalding on All Things Considered
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Friday August 20, 2010
From NPR
Esperanza Spalding: It Takes A ‘Society’
Esperanza Spalding blends jazz, R&B, Brazilian vocalese and classical music. Her works have proved to have broad appeal at a moment when many in the music industry were fretting that young people were turning away from jazz en masse. She’s managed that rare feat: earning raves from the most discriminating jazz aficionados while also attracting a loyal fan base all over the globe.
It also helps that Spalding has friends in high places. President Obama invited her to perform at the White House twice, as well as at his 2009 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. Her new album, Chamber Music Society, harkens back to her classical music training. For Spalding, classical music is “music among friends.”
“You get together [with] like-minded individuals and choose a piece of music,” Spalding says. “You sit together with this music on the stand, and you have to listen so carefully, breathe and be connected so intimately with everyone around you to balance all of the parts involved in bringing this piece to life. Amazingly, I realized through the process of exploring this music, that’s exactly what any ensemble player does in the jazz idiom, too.”
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